Occupational therapy helps people of all ages participate in meaningful everyday living activities through therapeutic use of the everyday activities to regain skills or to compensate for changes in abilities. Discussed by Stuckey‚ an occupational therapist’s ultimate goal is to increase a patient’s ability to participate in their everyday activities. So an occupational therapist is going to‚ for instance‚ help a child who is having trouble writing with and gripping a pencil. They are going to find
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help them with a variety of needs‚ such as‚ educational‚ physical or mental. This was my highest attribute‚ and I can see why because I very much enjoy helping individuals with any situation that arises. This trait will be very beneficial in occupational therapy because I will have to be able to interact on a daily basis caring for people’s needs. I will use this characteristic to connect to an individual on different levels and will allow me and my patient to have meaningful connections with each
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will be seeing in my field of work‚ occupational therapy quite frequently. I want to work with kids and
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Theory In Occupational Therapy Theory In General Although vital in the practice of occupational therapy‚ theory can be a difficult concept to fully understand. In the simplest terms theory is the foundation for fully understanding certain behavior or health problems through observations and predictions. Through watching the client‚ the therapist can develop questions or assumptions that lead them to create a best guess as to why the client behaved or acted in a certain way. Afterwards‚ the therapist
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Occupational therapy assistants and occupational therapist‚ work in a variety of places like hospitals‚ schools‚ nursing homes and private practice. Occupational therapist have a interesting and busy career because of their work environment‚ education and training‚ skills‚ and salary. There are a lot of tasks that a occupational therapy assistant has to do. For example‚ they must maintain medical equipment and records‚ schedule appointments‚ teach bask living skills like cooking‚ walking‚ and learning
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Evidenced Based Research Activity Research Question Does occupational therapy enhance the treatment of Parkinson’s? Title of Article/Citation Occupational therapists use WII for Parkinson’s study. Level of Evidence --□ Level I –systematic random controlled trials‚ meta-analysis‚ adequate sample size □ Level II – Non-random controlled trials with a minimum of 2 groups; small sample size □ Level III – evidence from well designed trials without randomization‚ single group pre-post
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Occupational therapy is the treatment of physical and psychiatric conditions by encouraging patients to undertake specific selected activities that will help them to reach their maximum level of function and independence in all aspects of daily life. As science and technology change‚ so does our occupational therapy practice methods. Technology influences our current practice and occasionally they create new tools for intervention. These activities are designed to make the best use of the patient’s
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peopl emay participate to their potential in the dialy occupations of life. Theory of Ocupational Therapy OT is very client- centered: how the individual defines the activity is what is important Hisotry of OT Early 1900s: there was a shift toward understanding that it was important to be healthy and happy- started mostly in mental health (started in mental asylems with occupational aids) realized that when there were given jobs and were meaningfullly occupied they got better quicker
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At this site I observed an Occupational therapist. A new role I learned about occupational therapy was preparing the family in their transition home. Before this rotation I knew that OT’s specialized in ADL’s‚ but I assumed that it was the social worker’s responsibility for their transition home. During my observations‚ the OT discussed with a family their living situation. This included one or two story home‚ tub or bath‚ bed size‚ hallway width and a lot more. After this experience I want to learn
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The History of Blood Pressure Finding out someone’s blood pressure is very important. Johannes Müller once said‚ “The discovery of blood pressure was more important than the discovery of blood.” Someone’s blood pressure could be high‚ and no one would know. The reason being is that a person with high blood pressure‚ also known as hypertension‚ will usually have no symptoms. High or low blood pressure cannot be detected without being measured. High blood pressure could cause heart attacks‚ strokes
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